Actually make Maria Hill a halfway interesting character in the first part of the movie, and then kill her.

__________________Bootleg Batman Begins: "Bruce found a basement under his villa, in which the equipments turn him into another person: Spiderman. With this mask, Spiderman stroke all criminal activates and criminals everywhere, such as Tougon, the chief of Mafia, Doctor Jackstraw, the abnormal drug trafficker, even a mysterious opponent familiar with him———”

I already gave my rationale for killing Hawkeye and Nick Fury, but how about killing off certain other characters who I see as potentially expendable.

Winter Soldier dying would be incredibly painful for Captain America to have to lose Bucky Barnes AGAIN and know that he's been killed off for real this time and is never coming back. It would make Cap 3 start with a tone similar to The Wolverine where Captain America has to deal with his grief and has gone from a courageous hero to a burnout who no longer cares whether he lives or dies. It's about his journey from despair to triumph where he realizes what it truly means to be a hero.

War Machine is a cool character whom people like but his death would shock the audience. Have him leave the Iron Patriot armor behind and then don the War Machine Armor one last time for one last fight as an affirmation of who he truly is. He's not a PR stunt, he's a soldier and after Captain America gives him a pep talk about going on that same journey, Rhodes sacrifices himself to stop Ultron.

Pepper dying because Ultron believes that humanity is flawed, inferior and deserving of death but having him still have an attraction to her and then building Jocasta in her image would truly get the audience to hate Ultron and see him as a monster. Then Jocasta not just being modeled after Pepper but having her brain inside would be really fun to see as Jocasta is forced to confront her past but accept that she's not actually Pepper as Pepper is dead along with Tony struggling with whether or not he's now in love with a machine.

Quicksilver dying would actually be expected. By that, I mean that based on what Joss Whedon said about Scarlet Witch possibly playing a role in Ultron's evolution, having Ultron then kill her brother would motivate her to join The Avengers. Within the Ultimate Universe, Wanda's death motivates Quicksilver to join Reed Richard's and Hulk as fallen heroes so having Wanda want to atone for her brother's death would be a cool way to develop her. I mean, have there ever been any great Quicksilver stories that weren't related to the X-Men anyway? With Fox doing their own Quicksilver, I can see Marvel getting rid of their version as he has limited potential for impacting any given story.

Killing off Bucky would be a complete waste of a good character, as would killing off Quicksilver in the same movie that he's introduced in. They can't kill off WM because people would complain about them using the "killing off the black sidekick" cliché yet again in a movie, and there are currently only THREE prominent black characters in the MCU. Pepper COULD MAYBE work, although you'd essentially be killing off the GF to motivate the main (and also male) character, which is an overused and lazy cliché as well. I wonder if Whedon has ever heard of "Women in Refrigerators?"

I wish War Machine would show up. It's kind of annoying that Stark's best bud and fellow superhero is strangely absent whenever a global threat appears.

__________________Bootleg Batman Begins: "Bruce found a basement under his villa, in which the equipments turn him into another person: Spiderman. With this mask, Spiderman stroke all criminal activates and criminals everywhere, such as Tougon, the chief of Mafia, Doctor Jackstraw, the abnormal drug trafficker, even a mysterious opponent familiar with him———”

Now that we know that he is in the film, War Machine is now number one on the death list.

No. No, he's not number one on the death list.

The fact that he plays a "key role" in the conflict against Ultron in no way, shape or form indicates he's going to die. Just that he'll be a major player in the fight.

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Originally Posted by Gunga Diner

Kill Tony. Because he's the one we'll miss the most, and he's the one who's grown the most. He's completed his arc, and I don't want an Avenger to die unless it'll be significant.

This.
If there's going to be an Avenger death at all, it needs to be a meaningful one. And you couldn't ask for a more meaningful, more emotional, more death than Tony Stark, the flagship of the studio.

And that, of course, sets up the inevitable on his "surprise" return in Avengers 3.

People complain about a lack of diversity in the MCU, and their response is to kill off one of only two black superheroes, one of only three prominent minority characters in the entire MCU period. Yeah, that would be really stupid, as well as counterproductive.

Marvel is not killing of Rhodey. One of my main beefs with the MCU is the lack of diversity on the Avengers. No way does Marvel kill off one of only two black superheros in the MCU, especially when we don't know if they will ever debut T'Challa (I believe they would, especially if Ultron is made completely of Vibranium) or Monica Rambeau. We don't even know if Luke Cage is even going to be an Avenger.

Yep. Mike Peterson, the Centipede-enhanced super from the pilot episode, returned as a SHIELD agent. *Allegedly* died during an explosion during the last 2-part cliffhanger episode, but the odds of that Marvel "death" sticking are about as likely as Coulson's.

Was. That's the operative word. As soon as I read that they were bringing Mike Peterson back I predicted he'd be killed and it looks like I'm right. It could turn out that he survived somehow but I'm so damned used to Black characters buying it that I won't bet on any last-minute miracles. More importantly, the producers made a beeline for the cliche without even blinking.

The next entry in The Expendables franchise should star an all-Black cast, with the added twist that they all die in the end. It would be the perfect metaphor for the way Black characters are often used in action films.